Multiplane transesophageal echocardiography to detect effectiveness of selective pulmonary recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator thrombolysis in pulmonary embolism and patent foramen ovale

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 384-388

  Colonna, Paolo ^a   Memmola, Cataldo ^a,b   Conte, Massimiliano ^a   Brienza, Nicola ^a   Biasco, Maria Giuseppina ^a   Rizzon, Paolo ^a   Dambrosio, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0031135852     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(97)70080-4     Document Type: Article

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